Product Details

• Actors: Billy Garberina, Adam Jarmon Brown, Mark Chavez, Brandy Bluejacket, Gene Grant
• Directors: Billy Garberina;Richard Griffin
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Shock-O-Rama Cinema
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 156 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001D27GL0
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,067 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

NECROVILLE (official site here), in contrast, is a quick-paced lark that lovingly sends up just about every horror-movie cliché in an infectiously good-natured way. It begins with zombies rising from their graves to attack...a video store. This is where we re introduced to our protagonists: Jack and Alex, the slacker clerks who manage to trash the place while blowing away one of the overzealous (but stupid) flesheaters with a shotgun blast.

Fired from their jobs as a result, the desperately broke fellas find work with a local two-bit organization called Zom-B-Gone, a pest-control service that takes care of everyday vermin like vampires, lycanthropes, zombies and loud frat parties throughout the New Mexico area. Alex discovers he s a pro with high-powered weaponry, while Jack s years of spiritual and physical tutelage in hand-to-hand combat by the Mexican Yoda comes in handy for taking down all manner of undead nuisances. But Jack s home life isn t as easily sorted as his work life. His live-in girlfriend, Penny, is not only a do-nothing parasite living off his meager earnings, she has also begun rekindling an old affair with Clark, a totally full-of-himself jerk and a lousy DJ (or, as Alex cleverly notes, an MP3-jay ) who also happens to now be a master vampire looking to greatly expand his coven, starting with Penny.

No synopsis can really do justice to the pleasures to be had from this very low-budget but highly entertaining flick; how can one explain the joys of seeing a Girl Scout troop tearing apart a zombie to earn a merit badge? Or a scene that takes place in an S&M club catering to the zombified sexual tastes of their more elite clientele? The two leads play well off each other and make for a pleasantly quick-witted yet deadpan comedy duo, but everyone in the cast is in on the jokes and plays their various roles to the comedic hilt. And for the horror fan who needs something more than a few good laughs, there s some surprisingly solid gore and a few moments of very well-choreographed violence to help keep things moving along.

Directed by Richard Griffin, the prolific indie auteur behind PRETTY DEAD THINGS (which was also well-liked by this critic; see review here), FEEDING THE MASSES and CREATURE FROM THE HILLBILLY LAGOON), and Billy Garberina (who not only stars as Jack but also co-wrote the screenplay with Adam Jarmon Brown, who plays Alex), NECROVILLE jumps from one incident to the next without lingering on anything long enough to become boring. It also has the good sense to plant a few jokes early on that take root and pay off later in the proceedings sometimes in obvious but nonetheless funny ways (particularly a gag involving holy water). And even more kudos to the filmmakers for pulling off a few pretty elaborate and very funny visual gags one involving a fellow Zom-B-Gone employee with a huge chainsaw taking care of a crowd of zombies on his day off, and another involving a vampire and a dangling piano that seems to have wandered in from a classic Warner Bros. cartoon.

In terms of style and intent, you could not pick two movies farther apart from each other in execution. However, good genre films are as few and far between as always this season, and both of these are worthy of distribution by some intrepid releasing company so they can finally be discovered by an appreciative audience besides yours truly. Best of luck to all the talented folks involved in these flicks, and looking forward to seeing your next projects, dammit! --Fangoria.com

Product Description

Jack and Alex are saving the world one paycheck at a time in this blood-soaked splatstick horror film Fangoria calls highly entertaining

Fired from their jobs as video store clerks, two Slackers must wage war on the living dead just to earn a living wage in a town overrun by Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Described by the Albuquerque press as if Kevin Smith wrote Ghostbusters , NECROVILLE follows long time friends Jack and Alex as they become members of the local extermination company, Zom-B-Gone, only to discover that even ravenous hordes of the undead pale in comparison to the horrors of Jack s nightmare girlfriend.

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AN INDIE FILM THAT HOWLS, September 19, 2008

By	R. Davalos (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was fortunate enough to have seen this film when it was first released. I have to admit that I was skeptical about a low-budget horror/comic film not being able to carry the weight it should to reach a diverse audience, but I was very pleasantly surprised. The audience ranged from tweens to baby boomers and they all enjoyed it very much. The film has some raw qualities, but the actors have done an exemplary job, showcasing that they are not some high school thespians trying to relive their glory days. Adam Brown has a deft comedic touch with great timing and Billy Garberina has the charm and good looks to make his character very believable. While the special effects may not be Industrial Light and Magic, they certainly were better than I would have guessed for a film with this kind of minimal budget. The pace of the film did not drag at all and it had a campy but fun feel throughout, almost a non-musical Rocky Horror meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe. It is well worth the price and the time to enjoy this entertaining piece of independent film making.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Gem Needs Polishing But Still... Bravo., September 18, 2009

By	Brian Lueth "WildsideCinema.com" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Necroville is a blast, folks! I really wasn't expecting to be entertained so darn thoroughly but here I am, about to give it a glowing review. Forget the low budget, forget the stiff amateurish acting, Necroville is a wild little indie horror flick that successfully combines elements of Clerks, Ghostbusters and Shaun of the Dead without blatantly stealing from any of them. It's different, funny and moves along at a decent clip.

As I stated above, the acting is rough, at times it's downright horrible but you just have to get over it when it comes to indie horror because many times these films barely have enough to pay for bagels to feed the crew. You get what you get and surprisingly that's more than I'd originally anticipated from this film.

The gore is darn good, super cheesy but darn good, especially during a specific sequence involving the most original method of killing a vampire I've ever laid eyes on. Good stuff, goofy stuff. It's not meant to be taken seriously and there are some parts that are downright groan-worthy but I found myself laughing harder than I groaned.

Outside of adult and home videos, horror is just about the easiest genre of film to break into these days, any old drunken fratbag can make a horror flick so long as they've got a few grand and friends willing to crack flatulation jokes. The large majority of what's out there is just plain bad and I've been saying for years now that there's simply no excuse for that, making a good horror film starts with a solid idea and decent script, neither of which most horror "filmmakers" invest much time in. Necroville never gets bogged down by budget or potty humor, its good clean fun with a few raunchy winks and honest-to-goodness comedy. Bring on the sequel!

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesomeville, August 20, 2009

By	Ben Wasden (Uriah, AL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Necroville is a horror-comedy starring Billy Garberina (Feeding The Masses, Wedding Slashers) and Adam Jarmon Brown as exterminators of the living dead. It's sort of like Clerks combined with Shaun of the Dead. And it's directed by Richard Griffin who also directed Stink of Flesh, another great zombie movie. Yes, Necroville is one kick-butt movie. It doesn't matter if you're a fan of independent movies, zombie movies,or vampire movies, you should find something here to like. I myself found everything to like.